{"id":818,"date":"2007-02-15T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=818"},"modified":"2007-02-15T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T14:52:00","slug":"the-snow-got-my-hopes-up-but-no-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/15\/the-snow-got-my-hopes-up-but-no-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"The snow got my hopes up, but no luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning and looked out the window&#8230; big flakes of snow were blowing around, and the Main Street Mall, Monroe, Second and Union were starting to see some snow cover.  So I called in to work and told them I&#8217;ll be late, hoping that &#8220;late&#8221; would mean &#8220;tomorrow.&#8221;  But the snow has stopped and the streets are clearing, so my excuse is gone&#8230; blast it all.  I guess I&#8217;ll go in around 10.<\/p>\n<p>I used the extra time to remove the Valentine&#8217;s Day Deals from my other blog, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">A Better, Bigger Deal<\/span>, and I added some links on the right sidebar to online stores that tend to have Deal of the Day\/Deal of the Week promotions.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.better-bigger-deal.com\/\">Check them out here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a pic of the snow from my rooftop:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/snow_feb07-777708.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/snow_feb07-774799.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>Last night I got my hair cut at City House Salon by my friend Amie C., who I&#8217;ve known for over 10 years, and she did a great job.  She cut it exactly the way I wanted it, and she thought it was a great idea that I brought photos to give her an idea of what I wanted.  If you&#8217;re looking for a new stylist I definitely recommend Amie.  Here&#8217;s a link to City House Salon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityhousesalon.com\/\">website<\/a>.  Their site proudly brags that it is CSS and XHTML compliant&#8230; good to know, I&#8217;d be horrified to think I was going to a hairstylist whose website didn&#8217;t contain valid XHTML.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward I stopped by my apartment building&#8217;s leasing office and renewed my lease for another year&#8230; so Downtown is stuck with me until February 29, 2008 at least.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a flyer for a benefit concert to be held on Beale Street this Sunday.  I don&#8217;t know the bartender personally, but Don McMinn and Night Train should be good, and there will be good people there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/benefit_feb18-767530.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/benefit_feb18-758927.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>Sorry the flyer looks a little funny&#8230; it was hanging in a window on a sunny day, so there&#8217;s a bit of a shadow.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s another benefit going on Sunday&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youthvillages.org\/soupSunday.aspx\">Soup Sunday<\/a> at the FedExForum, 11 am to 2 pm, benefiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youthvillages.org\/\">Youth Villages<\/a>.  I&#8217;m going to skip it this year because Sunday will be one of the last-ever brunches (possibly THE last) at Sleep Out Louie&#8217;s. Soup Sunday is a good event though, supporting a good cause.  As always, if you go I recommend you get there right at 11 AM; otherwise, be prepared to stand in long lines for soup.  The most popular soups usually run out not long after noon.<\/p>\n<p>Yay!  It&#8217;s snowing again.  Looks like a car was doing donuts this morning on the top floor of one of the parking garages.  Fun fun!<\/p>\n<p>Mpact Memphis and the Visible Film Festival are co-sponsoring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visiblefilmfestival.com\/concert_a.html\">The Concert to End Slavery<\/a>, featuring the best in rock, hip-hop, spoken word and more, Friday night at 387 S. Main.  Artists include Cool Hand Luke, Cayerio, Arma Secreta, The American Radio, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Fleming will be speaking tonight at the Downtown Neighborhood Association meeting, at the Muvico in Peabody Place.  He&#8217;s not my favorite radio talk show host (I miss Leon Gray) but my conservative\/Republican readers might enjoy the opportunity to meet him.  Event starts at 6:30 pm, $5 cover unless you&#8217;re a member, in which case it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p>Yay!  I got two blog posts written, and I did a load of laundry, so my &#8220;WTF?&#8221; shirt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-2290224-10356324\" target=\"_top\">ThinkGeek.com<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lduhtrp.net\/image-2290224-10356324\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> is clean now.  It should snow every morning.  Guess I have to go to work now&#8230; sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning and looked out the window&#8230; big flakes of snow were blowing around, and the Main Street Mall, Monroe, Second and Union were starting to see some snow cover. So I called in to work and told them I&#8217;ll be late, hoping that &#8220;late&#8221; would mean &#8220;tomorrow.&#8221; But the snow has stopped &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/15\/the-snow-got-my-hopes-up-but-no-luck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The snow got my hopes up, but no luck&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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